Chapter 9

8:55.

It was five minutes before the official start of work.

Mu Wanqing stepped into the door of Development Department Two on time. She was still wearing her dignified and elegant suit, but the aura of authority and gentleness she exuded in front of Lin Yao yesterday was gone.

Instead, she had a look similar to that of someone inspecting her territory.

However...

Most of the members of Development Department Two, including the director, had been reassigned to avoid the storm. Now, the entire department was left with only nine people.

Among them were mostly testers and marginal figures. The only one who could be considered a core member was Lin Yao from the Planning Group...

The entire Development Department Two, including her as the Development Manager, totaled ten people.

Mu Wanqing looked around the room. The department, which could accommodate nearly fifty people at its peak, was now almost empty. The remaining nine people were scattered in their cubicles.

Some were filing their nails, some were playing with their phones, some were watching dramas, and one was even lying down sleeping.

The people left here were all those who were not very popular in their respective groups or were not good at socializing. They had been abandoned in the so-called fair and just "vote."

They were left to maintain the basic operation of Development Department Two, or rather, to maintain a basic facade to deal with internal audits.

Although the director who left with a bucket had promised to reassign the remaining people after the internal audit, everyone present, having worked in the corporate world for years, knew very well that most company promises, if not put in writing, were just empty words and not worth believing.

Especially when it was just a promise from a superior.

So they knew very well that they had been abandoned and were now just waiting for the final outcome, like the last month before submitting their resignation letters, just one word—laid back.

Mu Wanqing was well aware of this.

So she couldn't say anything to them, nor did she want to...

Because she was also one of the abandoned.

In fact, she knew more about the inside story and the director's plans.

He intended to push all the responsibility onto the ten members still in Development Department Two and to blame her, Mu Wanqing, for the main failure of the turn-based online game.

All the responsibility was due to the autocratic actions of Mu Wanqing, the Development Manager. Whether it was the budget allocation or the product failure, it was all her and the remaining nine people's fault.

This sounded ridiculous.

After all, during the budget meeting, the director who left with a bucket was the loudest.

You say he didn't know?

How could that be possible?

But sometimes, the facts don't matter, especially in large companies under big groups.

It's all about the relationships.

The internal audit responsible person has already been taken care of. Development Department Three, which reported the issue, has been punished and ordered to be cautious, or else they would be fired.

Now, the internal audit just needs to pretend to stay for a while, then submit a "fair and just" investigation report, deal with the ten evil people led by Mu Wanqing, and the subsidiary will send someone to the group for a review, and the Development Department Two will be dissolved. Everything will be over.

The group will have upheld justice, the subsidiary will have deeply reflected, and someone will have taken the blame for the project failure.

Everyone will be happy.

After the matter is over, they will find a reason to reopen Development Department Two, and the director who left with a bucket will return, and everything will be back to normal.

Nothing will be affected.

What?

You say the director who left with a bucket is the responsible one? The ten evil people led by Mu Wanqing are innocent?

How could that be possible?

That's the beloved son of a big board member, how could he make a mistake?

It must be the common people spreading rumors.

"..."

Mu Wanqing retracted her inspecting gaze, thinking of the face of the director who left with a bucket. Her arms, which naturally hung by her sides, slowly clenched into fists, and she tightly pressed her lips.

She really wanted to punch him.

After all the effort to climb to this position, she was assigned to work under him.

Everything is ruined!

Scumbag!

She really couldn't bear it.

But... what could she do about it?

Mu Wanqing looked at her position not far away, pulled the corners of her mouth, and slowly unclenched her fists.

She had been in the corporate world for a considerable amount of time.

She knew very well that as long as the game remained the same, she had no way out. Although she could take revenge on the director who left with a bucket, it would be meaningless.

She could only pray to get a suitable position after changing jobs and not encounter such scumbags again.

Other than that, she could do nothing.

As for what Lin Yao said yesterday about saving the game, she had thought about it, but it was really too difficult.

She didn't even know where to start.

The only turn-based online game currently in Development Department Two had so many problems that she didn't know where to begin.

She had no idea how to save the game and increase its revenue.

Even if she tried to make changes, it would just be a waste of time.

With this time, she might as well find a good company and a good job.

Yes.

Find a good job.

Mu Wanqing took a deep breath, pulled out a chair, and sat down. She gently patted her cheeks, forcing herself to dispel the extra thoughts in her mind.

Although she was reluctant to leave her current position, because it was hard to find a job with the same待遇 after not achieving any significant results, and the turn-based online game had already become a laughingstock in the industry, it was impossible to be a plus on her resume, more like a minus.

But now, there was no other way, and she had to find a job.

Mu Wanqing pressed the power button, grabbed the mouse, lifted her head slightly, and became more spirited.

Don't give up.

Still need to make a lot of money.

She silently repeated these two sentences to herself, hypnotizing herself, and opened a job search website.

As for the proposal Lin Yao mentioned yesterday, she had already forgotten about it.

It wasn't that she didn't take it seriously.

But Lin Yao... was really hard to believe.

It was like a high school girl who couldn't even make an omelet suddenly deciding to learn how to cook, very unreliable.

Mu Wanqing didn't take what Lin Yao said yesterday seriously, and she didn't notice the stack of paper on her desk, let alone think about these things. Her eyes were only on the job search page on the screen and the red, enlarged salary numbers behind it.

However, perhaps because she didn't have any standout work, her job search wasn't going smoothly.

Throughout the morning, she submitted several resumes online to various companies but received no responses, like stones thrown into the sea.

This made her a bit disappointed.

She submitted another online resume to a company that seemed somewhat reliable.

Mu Wanqing released the mouse, moved her gaze from the screen, picked up the cup next to her, and prepared to take a break and get a drink of water.

"..."

Mu Wanqing's hand suddenly paused as it reached for the cup.

She looked at the large stack of paper next to the cup, seeing the title "Fantasy OL: Suggestions and Proposal" in large letters, and for a moment, she didn't react...

She hadn't asked anyone to do this. After determining that the game's issues were too numerous to address, she had already given up.

Moreover, most of the people still in Development Department Two had already given up, and it was almost impossible for them to do such a thing.

Who...

Oh.

She remembered what happened yesterday.

Mu Wanqing sat back down and picked up the thick "Fantasy OL: Suggestions and Proposal."

But she didn't rush to read it. Instead, she glanced at Lin Yao's position and shook her head with a smile.

She thought Lin Yao was joking, but she didn't expect her to really submit it.

This thickness...

It must have taken a lot of effort.

But just putting in effort wouldn't save the game, and Mu Wanqing knew this better than anyone.

A proposal isn't better just because it's thicker; it's not a novel.

It probably contained a lot of unnecessary words due to lack of experience.

Mu Wanqing had seen this many times. Many new planners, after the initial learning period, had this problem, and she had it at the beginning too.

The proposal didn't focus on the key points, writing a lot but expressing what could be said in a few lines.

It was... a lot of wasted effort.

Maybe she should have a good talk with Lin Yao.

Mu Wanqing slowly flipped through the proposal Lin Yao submitted, planning to skim through it.

She wanted to tell the young, lively girl that just having an idea wouldn't save a game. What seemed simple was often very complicated and intricate.

The turn-based online game in Development Department Two was wrong from the start and couldn't be saved by a single brilliant idea; it needed to be completely overhauled.

This kind of troublesome work would probably leave even top planners at the top of the pyramid confused, and those who could handle a single module would probably be frustrated.

What could a new planner, still in the learning stage, do?

Do you think this is a homework assignment?

I point out the mistakes, and you give me the correct answers?

The problem is, I don't know the correct answers either, so how can I give them to you...

Give up the fantasy and focus on learning.

Mu Wanqing flipped through a page of the proposal, her expression unchanged, but she felt a bit helpless inside.

But as she read... her expression gradually became more serious.